Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis Operations

Allergan; Markham; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager for Financial Planning & Analysis Operations. This exciting full-time role involves providing strategic and operational financial support, insightful business trend analysis, and driving the annual planning process. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, leveraging their extensive experience in financial operations and commercial finance to empower confidence in aesthetic medicine. Join a collaborative team dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives while fostering an inclusive culture that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible work-life balance

Great Place to Work

Inclusive culture

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• 10+ years of FP&A experience with a strong background in pharma.
• Ability to lead through change and build effective teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic financial support and insightful analysis.
• Drive annual planning and forecasting processes.

Skills

Financial Planning & Analysis

Change Management

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Business Acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting

MBA or Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

SAP S4

BPC

TM1

Hyperion

Power BI

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Joining Allergan Aesthetics (AA), an AbbVie company means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients’ lives. AA exists to empower confidence for consumers and customers, creating products and technologies that drive the advancement of aesthetic medicine. We believe in the power of shaping your own life, your own business, your own look – and we continue to evolve our business around the needs of those we serve. United by our shared belief in what we do and a commitment to doing what is right, we bring our best every day to empower confidence.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Are you looking for an exciting full-time career, where development and high-performance are valued? AbbVie Canada is looking to connect with a Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis Operations.

• Provides strategic and operational financial support to the local organization in setting strategic objectives and in delivering on quarterly and annual financial targets.
• Provides insightful analysis of current business trends and financial metrics along with recommendations for improvement or risk mitigation for consideration by the AA GM and local country FD.
• Drives the annual plan and periodic forecast processes, ensuring that deliverables are reasonably predictive of future results. Keeps financial and operational management appraised of current business trends relative to plan and forecast. Formulates recommendations for course correction as required.
• Ensures that local financial processes and procedures at a country level are operating effectively to enable accurate and timely reporting of financial results and maintenance of adequate internal controls in accordance with Corporate financial policies and procedures.
• Develops and executes continual process improvements to allow for routine analytical reviews of company financial and operational performance, leveraging business analytical resources and tools.
• Drive and ensure linkage between investment allocations and the P&L. Constant resource allocation review expected to maximize ROI.
• Integrate financial planning process with cash flow planning, transfer pricing planning and demand planning.
• Lead weekly sales forecasting process and guide Commercial Operations on to-market sales of all products.
• Lead production of analysis of expenses to Commercial teams to support cost management and promote ways to improve forecast accuracy and budget clarity, also working in conjunction with the Procurement team.
• Sales and full P&L modelling for new products launches and/or initiatives.
• Prepare and communicate business unit/country financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics. Suggest trends, growth opportunities, resulting implications and key actions, with special focus on providing insights to with accurate financial data provision.
• Support ad hoc management & stakeholder requests for financial information.
• Drive continued integration of financial planning with Supply Chain, Financial Reporting & Accounting, Commercial Operations and Marketing teams.
• Fosters a culture of strong financial discipline and business integrity.
• Raise the capabilities of FP&A to become a trusted/value added business partner.
• Coordinate and supervise accounting activities in compliance with local regulations, US GAAP, and company policies.
• Coordinate the month-end accounting close process in order to provide timely and accurate financial reports.
• Ad Hoc Projects & Analysis for management.

Qualifications

Education/Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting preferred.
• MBA or master’s degree in accounting or finance and/or CPA desirable. (Asset)
• Requires 10+ years progressive FP&A experience.
• Preferred experience in the pharma industry.
• Broad experience within commercial finance including finance operations, cash flow, commercial business partnering, Financial Controlling (internal and external)
• Ability to balance broad strategic objectives with the ability to execute day-to-day tactical operations.
• Strong change management skills, ability to lead through change.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills and ability to build a strong network across the organization.
• Ability to deal effectively with all levels of operating and financial management within a Fortune 500 corporate environment.
• Strong business acumen.
• Demonstrates strong business integrity.
• Builds and leads an effective team, that will interact effectively within a “One Company”/ “One Finance Team” culture.
• Ability to challenge the status quo through innovation and Bold thinking.
• In-depth understanding of financial statements (balance sheet, P&L and cash flow) & core finance/accounting concepts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter capable of working in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Ability to recognize key issues and effectively communicate those to management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Team oriented leader with the ability to develop talent.
• Good interpersonal skills, including the ability and desire to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with others throughout the business and finance organizations.
• Strong spreadsheet, power point, and financial systems experience.
• Knowledge of financial systems (SAP S4, BPC, TM1, Hyperion, Power BI, etc.)

Why Allergan Aesthetics?

We believe in the work that we do and together we create the products and technologies that drive the advancement of aesthetic medicine. Our principles are shaped to empower us to deliver on that promise:

• Making your practice our purpose (YPOP)
• Inclusive of all people
• Putting science at the core
• Creating what’s next?
• Connecting to patients.

We show up every day, energized by the chance to make a real difference in people’s lives. So, every day is one that counts. Aligning your interests with our imperatives as a business, you always have opportunities to step up and reach higher. So, we foster an inclusive, supportive environment where you’re empowered to ask questions, think big and build on each other's best ideas.

Voted as a Great Place to Work consecutively, and around the globe, we pride ourselves in providing our employees with the flexibility to ensure a healthy work-life balance. We take our impact on the environment and society seriously, so we focus ‘giving back’ regularly. We are committed to equity, equality, diversity, and inclusion (EED&I) - it is fundamental to who we are, and it is just how we “do good business.” This includes valuing diverse perspectives, creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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